Plant Physiol. (1998) 118: 1447-1454

Direct Measurement of Calcium Transport across Chloroplast Inner-Envelope Vesicles¹

Michael H. Roh, Richard Shingles, Michael J. Cleveland, and Richard E. McCarty^*

Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2685

	ABSTRACT

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The initial rate of Ca²⁺ movement across the inner-envelope membrane of pea (Pisum sativum L.) chloroplasts was directly measured by stopped-flow spectrofluorometry using membrane vesicles loaded with the Ca²⁺-sensitive fluorophore fura-2. Calibration of fura-2 fluorescence was achieved by combining a ratiometric method with Ca²⁺-selective minielectrodes to determine pCa values. The initial rate of Ca²⁺ influx in predominantly right-side-out inner-envelope membrane vesicles was greater than that in largely inside-out vesicles. Ca²⁺ movement was stimulated by an inwardly directed electrochemical proton gradient across the membrane vesicles, an effect that was diminished by the addition of valinomycin in the presence of K⁺. In addition, Ca²⁺ was shown to move across the membrane vesicles in the presence of a K⁺ diffusion potential gradient. The potential-stimulated rate of Ca²⁺ transport was slightly inhibited by diltiazem and greatly inhibited by ruthenium red. Other pharmacological agents such as LaCl₃, verapamil, and nifedipine had little or no effect. These results indicate that Ca²⁺ transport across the chloroplast inner envelope can occur by a potential-stimulated uniport mechanism.

	INTRODUCTION

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Ca²⁺ in plant cells has many key physiological functions; for example, as an intracellular second messenger it is especially important for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and signal transduction pathways (Evans et al., 1991; Pineros and Tester, 1997). Therefore, the [Ca²⁺]_cyt must be strictly regulated. The sequestration of Ca²⁺ into endomembrane compartments has been documented in detail for the ER and the vacuole (Evans et al., 1991). The chloroplast may also serve as a potential Ca²⁺ sink (Brand and Becker, 1984; Evans et al., 1991).

In addition to the potential role of chloroplasts in maintaining low resting [Ca²⁺]_cyt, it has been proposed that the free [Ca²⁺] in the stroma regulates several key enzymes involved in photosynthetic CO₂ assimilation, including Fru-1,6-bisphosphatase and sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (Kreimer et al., 1988) and NAD⁺ kinase (Brand and Becker, 1984). Ca²⁺ is also essential for O₂ evolution by PSII (Grove and Brudvig, 1998). Although the role of Ca²⁺ in the stroma and thylakoids has been studied in detail (Brand and Becker, 1984), there have been relatively few investigations on Ca²⁺ uptake by chloroplasts.

One study examining Ca²⁺ movement into intact wheat chloroplasts (Muto et al., 1982) indicated that the Ca²⁺ uptake occurs via an H⁺/Ca²⁺-antiport mechanism, and that the K_m was only slightly higher than [Ca²⁺]_cyt. Kreimer et al. (1985a, 1985b), who measured Ca²⁺ fluxes across the envelope of intact chloroplasts isolated from spinach, reported that Ca²⁺ transport into illuminated chloroplasts could occur via electrogenic uniport and that this was linked to photosynthetic electron transport.

The majority of the work done in this area has been carried out using intact chloroplasts; however, that system has some disadvantages. For example, it is difficult to monitor the nearly instantaneous influx or efflux of ions, and therefore it is difficult to resolve the initial rate kinetics of transport processes. In addition, the pH and ionic composition of the stroma are not easy to control. Another drawback to using intact chloroplasts is that it is difficult to examine the directionality of transport processes, because it is difficult to preload the chloroplasts with Ca²⁺ to measure efflux.

An alternative approach, which we used in this study, involves the use of membrane vesicles prepared from inner-envelope membranes isolated from intact chloroplasts. Vesicles have been shown to be competent for studying ion and metabolite movement across membranes (Sze, 1985). There are several advantages to using membrane vesicles over intact organelles. For example, vesicles can be loaded with fluorescent probes, allowing for the continuous fluorometric measurement of substrate and ion transport. When used along with stopped-flow spectrofluorometry, these processes can be monitored almost instantaneously with measurement times of less than 2 ms, which allows for the determination of initial rate kinetics of transport. This method has been used to measure the symport movement of protons with glycolate and D-glycerate (Young and McCarty, 1993) and the rapid proton-linked diffusion of nitrite as nitrous acid (Shingles et al., 1996) across the chloroplast inner-envelope membrane. Another advantage of this method is that the pH and ionic content of the intravesicular and external media can be easily manipulated, a procedure commonly used to study transport mechanisms. Finally, because inner-envelope vesicles of either right-side-out or inside-out orientation can be prepared (Shingles and McCarty, 1995), the directionality of transport processes can be characterized in detail.

Studies using liposomes loaded with the ratioable Ca²⁺ fluorescent probe fura-2 have been performed to measure Ca²⁺ transport catalyzed by reconstituted annexin ion channels (Berendes et al., 1993) and ionophores such as ionomycin and A23187 (Blau and Weissmann, 1988; Fasolato and Pozzan, 1989). In addition, fura-2 has been used to monitor voltage-dependent Ca²⁺ movement across the erythrocyte plasma membrane (Soldati et al., 1997). Preliminary experiments using chloroplast inner-envelope vesicles loaded with Ca²⁺-sensitive fluorophores indicated that these probes would be sensitive enough to detect small changes in intravesicular free [Ca²⁺], and therefore could be used to monitor Ca²⁺ movement across membranes (Cleveland and McCarty, 1995). In the present study this experimental procedure was used to directly calculate the initial rates of Ca²⁺ movement and to characterize further the properties of Ca²⁺ transport across the chloroplast inner envelope.

	MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Reagents

Plant Material

Membrane Isolation

Vesicle Preparations

Membrane vesicles were also prepared using a hand-held, small-volume extrusion apparatus (Shingles and McCarty, 1995). Trace amounts of Ca²⁺ in the filters and apparatus were removed by passing through the apparatus a total of 5 mL of resuspension buffer containing 10 mM K-Hepes, pH 8.0, 100 mM KCl, 100 mM Suc, and 100 µM EGTA. A total of 1.0 to 2.0 mL of a membrane suspension containing 1.2 mM fura-2 and about 1 mg of inner-envelope protein or 15 to 20 mg of asolectin was then passed 9 to 11 times through the extrusion apparatus with a polycarbonate filter (100-nm pore size) in place.

Inner-envelope vesicles, predominantly of the inside-out orientation, were prepared by the freeze/thaw method described by Young and McCarty (1993) in a resuspension buffer containing 10 mM K-Hepes, pH 8.0, 50 mM KCl, 50 mM choline chloride, 100 mM Suc, 100 µM EGTA, and 1.2 mM fura-2.

All vesicle preparations were passed through a 1.6- × 10-cm Sephadex G-50 column equilibrated with the appropriate resuspension buffer to remove most of the external fura-2. To eliminate trace amounts of external probe, the eluted vesicles were diluted 4-fold in resuspension buffer and centrifuged at 144,000g for 20 min at 4°C. The pellet comprising fura-2-loaded membrane vesicles was resuspended in the same buffer and allowed to equilibrate for 1 to 2 h at 4°C.

Ca²⁺ Minielectrodes

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Fluorescence Measurements

Internal Buffering Capacity Measurements

In this assay fura-2 was present as an indicator of the external pCa. Spinach chloroplast inner-envelope vesicles were prepared via the freeze/thaw procedure described previously with the following exceptions. The resuspension buffer consisted of 10 mM K-Hepes, pH 8.0, 100 mM KCl, 100 mM Suc, and 100 µM EGTA. The intravesicular fura-2 was replaced by 1.2 mM 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N,N-tetraacetic acid to avoid interference with the fluorescence of the external fura-2. Finally, the EGTA concentration in the elution buffer used to equilibrate the Sephadex G-50 column and to dilute the eluted vesicles before centrifugation was reduced to 20 µM. However, the concentrations of KCl, Suc, and K-Hepes, pH 8.0, in the elution buffer were identical to those in the resuspension buffer.

Vesicle suspensions were diluted with an equal volume of elution buffer supplemented with approximately 10 µM fura-2. The resulting mixture was loaded into chamber A of the stopped-flow apparatus. Chamber B contained buffer containing 100 mM choline chloride plus 32 µM CaCl₂. The fluorescence of fura-2 was monitored for 2 min. The decrease in pCa immediately after mixing was used to calculate the _out. This decrease was followed by a gradual increase in external pCa for the next 2 min as the external and internal [Ca²⁺] reached equilibrium. The final overall extent of change in pCa allowed for the calculation of the combination of _in and _out. From these data, _in was calculated.

Assays

	RESULTS

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Calibration of Vesicles Loaded with Fura-2

View larger version (23K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Ca2+ minielectrode calibration. The pH of the calibration buffer containing 15 mM nitrilotriacetic acid, 12 mM EGTA, and 10 mM CaCl2 was varied from 4.0 to 9.0, thereby decreasing the free [Ca2+] (expressed as pCa) that was calculated using computer software. At each pH the reading from the electrode was recorded (A). Afterward, the excitation spectra of a suspension of inner-envelope vesicles loaded with 1.2 mM fura-2 were recorded in the presence of 1 µM ionomycin between 300 and 400 nm, with emission monitored at 512 nm after adding small amounts of CaCl2 (B). The pCa of the vesicle suspension was recorded using the minielectrode after each addition. The Fs (340 nm) and Fis (359 nm) data from each of the spectra were used to produce the pCa versus Fs/Fis calibration curve (C).

When small amounts of CaCl₂ were added to membrane vesicles loaded with fura-2 in the presence of 1 µM ionomycin, thereby sequentially decreasing the intravesicular pCa (i.e. increasing the internal Ca²⁺ concentration), significant changes in the excitation spectrum were observed (Fig. 1B). Although ionomycin catalyzes Ca²⁺/H⁺ exchange, the changes in the spectrum were not attributable to pH effects, because fura-2 is insensitive to pH. The fluorescence change at 512 nm brought on by CaCl₂ addition was greatest at an excitation wavelength of 340 nm, so this wavelength was used as the F_s. However, with excitation at 359 nm, the fluorescence was relatively insensitive to the change in [Ca²⁺] inside the vesicles, so this isoexcitation point was taken as the F_is. After each addition of CaCl₂, the fluorescence values at F_s and F_is were determined from excitation spectra and the final pCa values were measured with the Ca²⁺ minielectrode. The plot of F_s/F_is versus pCa produced the curve shown in Figure 1C.

According to Grynkiewicz et al. (1985), the fluorescence ratio of fura-2 (R or F_s/F_is) can be related to [Ca²⁺] by the following equation:

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The plot shown in Figure 1C yielded a curve that fit the rearranged form of Equation 1:

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where (F_s/F_is)_max is the fluorescence ratio at a pCa value at which essentially all of the fura-2 is bound to Ca²⁺, and (F_s/F_is)_min is the ratio observed when all of the fura-2 is in the unchelated form. From the plot of this particular curve, the pK_d was determined to be 7.0 and the (F_s/F_is)_min and (F_s/F_is)_max were equal to 0.66 and 1.4, respectively. These values were observed to vary only slightly among vesicle preparations; however, this calibration process was performed for each set of experiments. In each preparation the relationship between Ca²⁺ chelation by fura-2 and pCa was approximately linear between pCa 6.5 and 7.5.

Determination of the Internal Buffering Capacity of Inner-Envelope Vesicles

In our experiments an average _in value of 7.0 ± 1.0 µM pCa unit¹ was obtained. Because the concentration of inner-envelope protein in the stopped-flow apparatus was 0.07 mg mL¹, the internal buffering capacity was calculated to be 100 ± 14 nmol Ca²⁺ pCa unit¹ mg¹ protein. The calculation of _in allows for the direct calculation of the initial rate of Ca²⁺ movement as the product of the initial rate in pCa units per second and the internal buffering capacity.

Ca²⁺ Movement across Vesicle Membranes

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View larger version (25K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Ca2+ influx in asolectin and chloroplast inner-envelope vesicles. A, Asolectin vesicles at pH 8.0 were mixed with pH 8.0 buffer containing CaCl2 such that the free external [Ca2+] after mixing was 0.35 µM. When used, the asolectin vesicles were preincubated with 0.2 µM ionomycin for 15 min. B, Inner-envelope vesicles (50 µg of protein) prepared by extrusion were mixed under the same conditions as in A with 1.0 µM free Ca2+. C, Inner-envelope vesicles (50 µg of protein) prepared by the freeze/thaw method were mixed with 1.0 µM free Ca2+. Data were fit to the single exponential equation using the graphing program Kaleidagraph (Synergy Software, Reading, PA).

Membranes that were extruded were shown to be predominantly right-side-out, whereas membranes subjected to a freeze/thaw treatment were largely inside-out in orientation (Shingles and McCarty, 1995). The addition of 1.0 µM free Ca²⁺ to inner-envelope membrane vesicles prepared by extrusion resulted in a decrease in intravesicular pCa during the first 30 s (Fig. 2B). The initial rate of Ca²⁺ transport under these conditions was equal to 0.06 pCa unit s¹. However, when inner-envelope membrane vesicles prepared by the freeze/thaw method were used (Fig. 2C), the observed initial rate of Ca²⁺ influx was approximately 0.03 pCa unit s¹. When vesicles of either orientation were mixed with Ca²⁺ in the presence of 0.2 µM ionomycin, the added Ca²⁺ equilibrated within the 1st s (data not shown).

Effect of a Proton Gradient on Ca²⁺ Influx into Inner-Envelope Vesicles

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View larger version (22K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. pH and potential gradient effects on Ca2+ transport across inner-envelope vesicles. Extruded inner-envelope vesicles (15 µg of protein) at pH 8.0 were mixed with various buffers containing Ca2+ such that after mixing the free external [Ca2+] was approximately 0.4 µM. When the external pH was 7.0 in the absence of valinomycin, the was calculated to be 59 mV using the Nernst equation. When used, 2 nM valinomycin was preincubated with vesicles for 30 min on ice. A membrane potential of about 16 mV was imposed across the vesicle membranes by mixing vesicles in 100 mM KCl, 10 mM K-Hepes, 100 mM Suc, and 100 µM EGTA with an equal volume of the same buffer in which the 100 mM KCl was replaced with 100 mM choline chloride. The instantaneous equilibration of K+ in the presence of valinomycin resulted in a negatively charged vesicle interior.

The Effect of the Membrane Potential on Ca²⁺ Influx

View larger version (17K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 4. Potential gradient effect on Ca2+ transport across inner-envelope vesicles. Ca2+ influx into inner-envelope vesicles prepared by extrusion was monitored under varying magnitudes of generated by adjusting the KCl and choline chloride solutions used in Figure 3. The intravesicular [K+] was maintained at 110 mM. The was varied by changing the external [K+]. Inner-envelope vesicles (15 µg of protein) were incubated with 2 nM valinomycin for 30 min before each experiment.

Ca²⁺ Concentration Dependence of Initial Rates of Ca²⁺ Movement

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 5. Effect of [Ca2+] on transport across inner-envelope vesicles. Extruded inner-envelope vesicles (15 µg of protein) were mixed with buffer containing various concentrations of free Ca2+, and Ca2+ influx was monitored. In each experiment a membrane potential of approximately 16 mV was imposed across the vesicle membranes, as described in Figure 3.

Effect of Inhibitors on Ca²⁺ Influx

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View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table I. Effect of inhibitors on Ca2+ influx into pea chloroplast inner-envelope membranes prepared by extrusion Ca2+ movement was monitored for 30 s in the absence and presence of known Ca2+-channel blockers at a concentration of 10 µM. In each experiment a membrane potential of 16 mV (when used) was imposed across the vesicle membranes and the [Ca2+] in the external medium was equal to 0.4 µM. The amount of inner-envelope protein in each experiment was approximately 15 µg.

Other pharmacological agents known to block Ca²⁺-channel activity were also tested for their effects on Ca²⁺ movement. Diltiazem inhibited the non-potential-dependent Ca²⁺ influx by approximately 85%, but only inhibited potential-stimulated Ca²⁺ influx by 25% (Table I). LaCl₃ and two other known Ca²⁺-channel blockers, nifedipine and verapamil, had little inhibitory effect on Ca²⁺ transport. Other divalent cations that might compete for Ca²⁺ uptake were not tested because of their known effects on fura-2 fluorescence. However, an independent study on divalent cation uptake could be performed using fura-2-loaded membrane vesicles.

	DISCUSSION

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In this study we have demonstrated that a sensitive Ca²⁺ probe, fura-2, can be loaded into chloroplast inner-envelope vesicles and used to monitor Ca²⁺ transport across this membrane. This system has several advantages, including control of the buffer components on both sides of the membrane, the analysis of Ca²⁺ movement under essentially zero trans conditions, and sensitivity to Ca²⁺ at submicromolar levels. Combined with stopped-flow spectrofluorometry, the movement of Ca²⁺ can be followed with a resolution time of 2 ms (Fig. 2). In addition, previous methods used to produce membrane vesicles of right-side-out or inside-out orientation (Shingles and McCarty, 1995) allow for the evaluation of the sidedness of Ca²⁺ movement.

Previous studies using intact chloroplasts have demonstrated light-stimulated Ca²⁺ uptake (Muto et al., 1982; Kreimer et al., 1985b). The mechanism by which Ca²⁺ influx occurs in chloroplasts is in dispute. Muto et al. (1982) claimed the presence of a Ca²⁺/H⁺ antiporter, whereas Kreimer et al. (1985b) concluded that this process was mediated by an electrogenic uniport-carrier system. In our inner-envelope vesicle preparations we were not able to measure any Ca²⁺-linked, proton transport using membrane vesicles loaded with the pH-sensitive fluorophore pyranine (data not shown). This would seem to indicate that Ca²⁺ does not move across these membrane vesicles by a Ca²⁺/H⁺-antiport mechanism. Huang et al. (1993) reported that an antibody raised against a portion of a putative Ca²⁺-ATPase recognizes a 95-kD polypeptide in chloroplast inner-envelope preparations, suggesting that Ca²⁺ pumping might also be a mechanism for moving Ca²⁺ across this membrane. However, they were not able to show any Ca²⁺-dependent ATPase activity or ATP-dependent Ca²⁺ uptake in their inner-envelope preparations from pea chloroplasts. Similarly, we were not able to measure either of these activities using fura-2-loaded vesicles or a ⁴⁵Ca assay in the presence or absence of added calmodulin (data not shown).

Because the rate at which Ca²⁺ diffuses across nonproteinaceous membranes is very low (Fig. 2A), the movement of Ca²⁺ across the chloroplast inner-envelope membrane observed in this study indicates the presence of a Ca²⁺ uniporter in our vesicle preparations. The influx of Ca²⁺ into predominantly right-side-out inner-envelope vesicles was stimulated by a negative and was very sensitive to micromolar amounts of ruthenium red (Table I). These results are in agreement with those of previous studies using intact chloroplasts (Kreimer et al., 1985a, 1985b). Furthermore, a high magnitude of may not be necessary to fully stimulate Ca²⁺-transport activity (Fig. 4). The observation that Ca²⁺ influx does not increase at voltages more negative than 11.8 mV indicates that uptake is not dependent on an electrophoretic driving force, but, rather, may occur through a voltage-dependent channel. In addition, the fact that Ca²⁺ influx does increase with Ca²⁺ concentration at a constant of 16 mV (Fig. 5) indicates that this channel would be Ca²⁺ specific.

The initial rate of Ca²⁺ influx at a free Ca²⁺ concentration of 0.2 to 0.4 µM was determined to range between 1.0 and 3.0 pCa units mg¹ protein s¹ (Fig. 5). Under these conditions the _in of the vesicles was equal to approximately 100 nmol Ca²⁺ pCa unit¹ mg¹ inner-envelope protein. Assuming that there is 0.1 mg of inner-envelope protein per mg of chlorophyll (Young and McCarty, 1993), the initial rate was calculated to range from 0.54 to 1.62 µmol Ca²⁺ h¹ mg¹ chlorophyll at 25°C. These rates are 10-fold lower than the rates calculated by Kreimer et al. (1985b); however, we used a [Ca²⁺] of up to 100 times lower than that used in the previous study.

Antagonists to Ca²⁺ channels have been frequently used to characterize transport processes. Various drugs such as verapamil, nifedipine, and diltiazem have been frequently used as inhibitors of voltage-dependent Ca²⁺ channels (Triggle, 1990; Takahashi et al., 1997). In this study Ca²⁺ influx under nonpotential conditions was greatly inhibited by diltiazem and ruthenium red (Table I). The weak inhibition by diltiazem under potential gradient conditions suggests that there may be more than one pathway for Ca²⁺ uptake across chloroplast inner envelopes. Furthermore, LaCl₃ can be used to inhibit a ruthenium-red-insensitive Ca²⁺/H⁺ exchanger in liver and kidney mitochondria (Saris and Allshire, 1989). In chloroplast inner-envelope membranes LaCl₃ had no effect, indicating that Ca²⁺ does not move by a Ca²⁺/H⁺ antiporter. In contrast, ruthenium red, which inhibits the plant mitochondrial Ca²⁺ uniporter (Wilson and Graesser, 1976), almost completely inhibited Ca²⁺ movement across chloroplast inner-envelope vesicles (Table I).

Chloroplasts have been reported to contain from 4 to 23 mM total Ca²⁺ (Portis and Heldt, 1976). The concentration of free Ca²⁺ in the stroma of chloroplasts kept in the dark was determined to be 2.4 to 6.3 µM (Kreimer et al., 1988), which indicates that most of the Ca²⁺ is sequestered at binding sites within the chloroplast. Johnson et al. (1995), using a transgenic tobacco line in which expressed apoaequorin was targeted to the chloroplast stroma, estimated that under light conditions, chloroplasts maintain basal free [Ca²⁺] in the low nanomolar range (150 nM), indicating that even more Ca²⁺-binding sites, such as those on PSII (Grove and Brudvig, 1998), become available during illumination. However, when plants are transferred from light to dark conditions, a transient increase in free stromal [Ca²⁺], which peaks at 5 to 10 µM, takes place (Johnson et al., 1995). The transient nature of the stromal [Ca²⁺] increase as plants are switched from light to dark suggests that there may be a mechanism for Ca²⁺ efflux across the inner envelope, and also indicates that Ca²⁺ efflux may be slower than influx. Under certain conditions, Kreimer et al. (1985a, 1985b) observed an efflux rather than a net influx of Ca²⁺ into intact chloroplasts; however, they were unable to conclude whether efflux occurred via a reversal of uniport.

Inner-envelope membranes prepared by the freeze/thaw method produce vesicles of predominantly inside-out orientation (Shingles and McCarty, 1995). When vesicles in pH 8.0 buffer prepared by the freeze/thaw method were mixed with 1 µM free Ca²⁺, a significant Ca²⁺ influx was observed (Fig. 2C). This movement was also inhibited by ruthenium red but not as strongly as in predominantly right-side-out vesicles (data not shown). Therefore, it is possible that the Ca²⁺ uniporter may be reversed and may catalyze the net efflux of Ca²⁺ after chloroplasts are transferred from light to dark conditions. However, because the initial rates measured with predominantly inside-out vesicles were one-third of those measured with predominantly right-side-out vesicles, there is a directional preference to Ca²⁺ transport across the chloroplast inner envelope favoring Ca²⁺ uptake.

In this study the initial rate of Ca²⁺ uniport activity across the pea chloroplast inner envelope under physiological free [Ca²⁺] was measured to be 0.5 to 1.6 µmol h¹ mg¹ chlorophyll and was demonstrated to be stimulated by a negative membrane potential. It has been demonstrated that an inwardly directed pH gradient of 0.25 to 0.5 unit can be maintained across the chloroplast envelope by the H⁺-ATPase present in the inner-envelope membrane (Shingles and McCarty, 1994). This H⁺ gradient also represents a of 15 to 30 mV, enough to couple this ATPase to the potential-stimulated Ca²⁺ uniporter. This mechanism could result in the efficient uptake of Ca²⁺ by the chloroplasts as well as the activation of photosynthetic CO₂ assimilation.

	FOOTNOTES

   Received June 30, 1998; accepted September 18, 1998.

	ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations: _in, internal Ca²⁺-buffering capacity. _out, external Ca²⁺-buffering capacity. [Ca²⁺]_cyt, free [Ca²⁺] in the cytosol. , membrane potential difference. F_s, fluorescence at a Ca-sensitive wavelength. F_is, fluorescence at a Ca-insensitive wavelength.

	ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We thank Leonard Beaton for cultivating the pea plants and preparing the chloroplasts.

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